Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe admitted on Friday, September 20: “deficiencies” of this service in charge of protecting high-ranking American political figures during the failed assassination of Donald Trump on July 13.
During a press conference, Rowe highlighted in particular the communication problems. “lack of clarity” by the Secret Service in its exchanges with local police and its expectations of them, as well as gaps in the transmission of information. For example, certain problems had been observed on the front line but were not reported to the hierarchy.
“If some of the identification team members were very conscientious, others were negligent”he said, referring to future sanctions.
The report also mentions that “technical difficulties” They were observed in the air system. If the system had “it worked properly”HE “The shooter could have been detected while flying his drone” near the meeting “earlier in the day”we can read.
A new law to protect presidential candidates
During his mid-July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, former President Donald Trump was hit in the ear by a gunshot that also left one dead and two wounded. The shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was shot dead by the Secret Service shortly after opening fire from the roof of a nearby building. Images of Donald Trump, blood streaming down his face and his fist raised, were broadcast around the world.
The US House of Representatives also adopted on Friday a bill aimed at granting presidential candidates the same number of security agents as the incumbent president. This vote comes five days after a new alleged assassination attempt against the Republican candidate in the presidential elections on November 5, while he was playing a round of golf in Florida.
House Republican Speaker Mike Johnson said in a statement. “than any leader in American history” had not been attacked “as aggressively as Donald Trump.”
The director of the Secret Service simply said that “The threat level is evolving.[ait] »without further details. Rowe has been acting director of the Secret Service since Kimberly Cheatle resigned on July 23 after acknowledging her responsibility in the “The Secret Service’s biggest operational failure in decades”.
